Matthew Leveno, M.D.

Dr. Matt Leveno was raised in Dallas, Texas. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and returned to his Dallas home to attend UT Southwestern for medical school. Prior to starting his internship in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern, he spent one year working in various clinics throughout Mexico and Guatemala. Upon completion of his internship he completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Boston University. He then returned to UT Southwestern to complete his Internal Medicine residency. He completed Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship training at UT Southwestern and received his research mentorship under Dr. Beth Levine while investigating autophagy’s role in innate immunity. Dr. Matt Leveno is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.  Currently, he is Medical Director for the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Parkland Health and Hospital Systems.

Medical School	UT Southwestern Medical Center (2002)
Internship	UTSW - Internal Medicine Residency Program (2003), Internal Medicine
Residency	Boston Medical Center (2006), Emergency Medicine
Residency	UTSW - Internal Medicine Residency Program (2008), Internal Medicine
Fellowship	UT Southwestern Medical Center (2012), Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine

• Critical Care: clinical outcomes, resources utilization, ARDS, sepsis, ECMO
• Innate immunity

Featured Publications

Identification of a candidate therapeutic autophagy-inducing peptide.

Shoji-Kawata S, Sumpter R, Leveno M, Campbell GR, Zou Z, Kinch L, Wilkins AD, Sun Q, Pallauf K, MacDuff D, Huerta C, Virgin HW, Helms JB, Eerland R, Tooze SA, Xavier R, Lenschow DJ, Yamamoto A, King D, Lichtarge O, Grishin NV, Spector SA, Kaloyanova DV, Levine B Nature 2013 Feb 494 7436 201-6

• Senior Resident Teaching Award
  UT Southwestern Internal Medicine Residency (2008)
• Senior Resident Teaching Award
  Boston Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency (2006)